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to escape danger, (i) used absolutely
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  • Seó wiht (a steer), gif hió gedýgeð, dúna briceð, gif hé tóbirsteð, bindeð cwice

    cf. the Latin riddle:

    Si vixero, rumpere colles incipiam, vivos moriens aut alligo multos,
      Prehn, p. 212), Ra. 39, 6.
with acc.
to come successfully out of conflict
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  • On swá hwylcum gefeohte swá ðú bist [ðú bist] sigefæst, and þú ꝥ gedigest, gif þú ðone fót mid þé hafast,

      Lch. i. 328, 7.
to escape from danger, harm, & c.
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  • Feá þæt gedýgað þára þe geræcað rynegiestes wǽpen,

      Rä. 4, 57.
  • Ic þæt unsófte ealdre gedígde,

      B. 1655.
  • Gefeónde ꝥ hé þone deáð gedígde

    (evaserit),

      Gr. D. 203, 14.
  • Se bróþer gedígde ꝥ wíte

    frater evasit supplicium,

      346, 6.
  • Hé geortrýwde hweþer hé mihte gedígean

    (évadere)

    swá myccle frécnesse þára ýþa, 34.
  • Þú þæs déman scealt yrre gedýgan, Jul. 257. (b α) of things :-- Nǽnig móste heora hrórra hrím æpla gedígean

    occidit moros eorum in pruina,

      Ps. Th. 77, 47.
to escape from an enemy
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  • Þone feónd, þám hé wæs geseald, hé þone ná ne gedýgde

    eum hostem, cui traditus fuerat, non evasit,

      Gr. D. 327, 18.
to recover from illness
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  • Bútan þá áne þe hý þá slitnesse gedígean mægen

    iis tantummodo exceptis, quae a tali laceratione convalescere possint,

      Ll. Th. ii. 166, 25.
to benefit, profit,
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v. dígan
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  • Gyf hyt hwá gedó, ne gedíge hit him náfre,

      Lch. i. 384, II.
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